Chapter 14: A Lonely City
Walking through the moss-mottled alley, returning home, faintly revealing the sound of parents talking, pushing open the door Father and mother were there, the two sat at the dinner table chatting, seeing Chen Kun push the door in, father Chen Dakuan laughed: "Monkey cub, have you been playing at grandma's house for two days? β
Chen Kun walked over with a smile, took the porcelain teacup pushed by his father, and drank it in a big gulp, his mother and father probably chatted for an afternoon, and the tea brewed in the teacup had completely lost its taste.
Chen Kun smelled the faint smell of diesel on his father's body, and asked with a smile: "Dad, my mother told you about winning the lottery, right?
Chen Dakuan also laughed, always knowing that his child was precocious, and he didn't mind, and said, "I discussed with your mother to buy a truck and run the transportation by yourself, what do you think?"
Chen Kun frowned and said: "Peng Shijun's family has been running transportation for so many years, don't you also live in a tube building? Dad, the newspapers say that the car bandits are as fierce as a tiger, and besides, I'm about to go to high school, if you don't accompany me, I'll be bad at school." β
This is not the early days of reform and opening up, the transportation capacity is low, the state encourages overloading, that year and month 20 tons of cars pull a hundred tons, the road runs up and no one cares, now you more than 10 tons to try? Objectively speaking, although the times are different, 96 running transportation can still make money, but the risk is disproportionately high, Chen Kun of course is unwilling.
Chen Dakuan was silent, and his mother Li Qin spoke: "I also advise your father to change his career, and doing a small business is better than running outside all year round, my mother and daughter have to be worried, if you want to be at home, then SH mother-in-law dares to bully me and Kunzi?"
Li Qin's words made Chen Dakuan look a little irritable, Chen Kun opened the backpack and took out the plan he wrote, but he just lowered the mouth of the bag, so that his parents did not find the large bundle of banknotes in the bag.
I found a chair and sat down, handed the plan I wrote to my father and said, "I have a plan, Dad, look at it, there was a classmate in my class who used to do this at home, and then transferred back to SC, and it is said that the family has made a fortune." β
There was a SC classmate in Chen Kun's class before, and the two had a good relationship, Li Qin knew it, and it was not very clear what the family was doing, and later transferred back to SC.
Chen Dakuan took it and looked at it, it was written on a few pieces of manuscript paper, and he smiled when he first read the words, and said in his heart: "My son has practiced calligraphy well during this time." β
It is written about the plan of the hot pot restaurant, and the first sentence on the head is a blank spot in the current Yuzhang catering industry, which is a bit big.
looked up at Li Qin, and then at Chen Kun, Chen Dakuan went to many places, he must know what hot pot is, and he thought about it silently, as if he had never seen a hot pot restaurant in the Yuzhang market.
Then I looked down and looked down, this plan is very comprehensive, product status, customer group positioning, marketing, management methods, equity structure, organization and personnel, finance, operations, and even store expansion plans are summarized, and the data list is also very rich.
After opening a factory for a few years, Chen Dakuan still has some knowledge, and he thinks that this thing is really not something that a teenager can write, but there is no place for you to copy this thing, and when he saw that it said that the gross profit margin could reach 70%, he was even more shocked, and asked Chen Kun: "There is such a high profit?
Chen Kun picked up the teacup and drank a sip of water: "The ruler is long, the inch is short, Dad, you look down on me too much, I have your genetics in business, most of this thing is written by myself, and I refer to some management books on management and finance, but rest assured that I have examined most of the data, how much is the salary of employees, how much is the rent of the store, the cost of ingredients, water and electricity, these are all data that can be checked." β
Then he said: "Dad, the people take food as the sky, you should know better than me, the market must be very large, I said that 70% gross profit margin is also well-founded, you see, I will take the most profitable vegetables as an example, a pound of potatoes five cents, remove the loss I cut three plates, two dollars per plate, 6-0.5 = 5.5, so the profit margin is: 5.5/0.5 = 11, that is, 1100% profit margin. Of course, you have to spread the beef and mutton that are not profitable, and you have to calculate the loss and labor costs, not to say that you will earn 70 yuan for 100 yuan, you must understand this dad. β
I understand it must be understood, watching Chen Kun talk eloquently, Chen Dakuan is still a little frightened, and the parents must be happy when the child grows up.
It's just that he suddenly grew too tall, too big, and too fast, which made Chen Dakuan feel a little lost, this little monkey was no longer a little monkey hiding under his wings, as if Chen Dakuan saw that one day the little monkey suddenly became a Monkey King, and one turned out of 108,000 miles, and also ran out of the Five Fingers Mountain of his parents, because it was destined to run higher and farther than its parents.
While all the monkeys were looking at the one-third of an acre of land in front of them, the monkey's gaze was already thirty-three days away.
Looking at the plan book on the table, Chen Dakuan silently said to himself: "Kunzi, did I miss too much? Or did you grow too fast?". I just feel like I've missed too much in the years I've been out there.
For Chen Dakuan, the money is obtained by the child winning the lottery, in a sense, it is not too much to be sent by God, Chen Kun has said so much, and said it so thoroughly, so it can only be said that this is one of the children's dreams, and it is also the child's first plan, it is not every parent's greatest wish to help the child realize his dream, and it feels that this plan is so feasible.
Chen Dakuan thought silently: "Little monkey, you grow up slower, Dad works harder, so that you have more capital to go higher and farther." β
A father's love has always been like a mountain.
In Chen Kun's view, the process of persuading his father was extremely smooth, and it was beyond Chen Kun's imagination.
The general direction is set, as for the hot pot base or something, in the eyes of Chen Kun and Chen Dakuan, it is not a big deal, go to CD or ZQ, you may not be able to bring back the famous master, but it is not difficult to buy a recipe for hot pot base.
Chen Dakuan is a person who travels south and north, this thing is really difficult for him, in fact, to be honest, thanks to the developed network in later generations, Chen Kun himself also knows some pot bottom recipes, of course, knowing the formula and being able to do it well must be two concepts, and the safest way is to go to the local area to learn.
After chatting for a while about the details of the operation, the mother got up and went out to cook, leaving the father and son to talk in detail.
After dinner, Chen Kun went to the room to read, his father pushed the door in, took a glass of milk and put it on the table, knocked on the table and whispered: "Smoke less, you are still young." β
There were no more words, and he went out the door.
Chen Kun sniffed the clothes on his body, and there was a faint smell of tobacco, his father smoked, Chen Kun had the smell of tobacco on his body when he entered the door, and his father probably smelled it when he entered the door, but he didn't say it, he couldn't say that he was in any mood, in Chen Kun's opinion, his father was always so tolerant.
Sunrise and sunset, when the sun rises, it is already a brand new day.
Chen Kun's usual morning wake-up, two white water eggs, still running in the morning, life moves along the trajectory, and only Chen Kun knows but it is different from the past.
Monday is going to class, as if entering the campus, but also into another world, where Chen Kun can abandon all the disturbances from the outside world, thinking of seeing his little girlfriend again, Chen Kun can't help but move forward quickly.
Entering the school, running through the playground, Chen Kun saw Li Qian at the staircase, or Li Qian was waiting for Chen Kun here.
The snow-white dress, white sneakers, white cotton socks, revealing smooth ankles and calves, and short ear-length hair with a sweet smile make Li Qian, who is standing at the top of the stairs look so playful and cute at the moment.
Being looked at by Li Qian, Chen Kun seemed a little at a loss, and always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with today's atmosphere, and he was blocked at the staircase by a good girl.
Li Qian put her hands behind her back, jumped to Chen Kun's side, bumped Chen Kun with her shoulder, and said playfully: "Come play with me today, go out for a walk with me." β
Chen Kun was speechless: "Today is Monday, class is about to start." β
"Skipping class once in a while is good for your physical and mental health, you said. β
"Your dad will check the post, and I was caught by the director of discipline and I took his baby daughter to skip class, and I was miserable. β
"I won't find out, he doesn't go to work today, he's on leave, will you accompany me?"
What can Chen Kun say? I had to say helplessly: "Let's go, where do you want to go?" What kind of student Li Qian is Chen Kun knows best, but his classmates haven't even been late once in three years, and today he actually pulled himself to skip class, thinking with his feet that Chen Kun also knew that it was abnormal.
"I don't know, but I borrowed a bicycle, you see I have the key, otherwise let's go to Nanshan." β
Chen Kun took the key, and the two of them went to the carport together, which was a yellow women's bicycle with a basket in the front and a back seat in the back.
Yuzhang has the South Mountain, but there is no North HN Mountain, not far away, more than ten kilometers are there.
Chen Kun pedaled the bicycle, and Li Qian, who was carrying the back seat of the car, rushed out of the school and the fan cage in the eyes of everyone and the strange eyes of the security guards.
Two people in a car, through the lively block, turn into the bluestone paved alley, and then south along the long river embankment all the way, tall and straight metasequoia on both sides of the river stretch elegant body, a large number of formed a long aisle, long as there seems to be no end, each metasequoia has a lot of years, tall, elegant, upright.
In the turbid water, life is different.
The camphor tree mixed with the metasequoia is still in the season of changing leaves, and the ground is also covered with a thick layer of colors.
The wheels crushed on it with a squeaky sound, and the leaves that fell from time to time were orange-red, like more petals than dead leaves, and occasionally one or two leaves fell on Chen Kun's head, Li Qian picked them off with her hands, shone them on her eyes, and looked at the sky, the sun, and the world through the veins of the leaves.
The air was filled with a faint fragrance of camphor trees, which was very refreshing, and Chen Kun also had some faint sadness in his heart, Li Qian didn't say that Chen Kun could feel some of it.
Li Qian, who was sitting in the back seat, naturally reached out to hug Chen Kun's waist.
The skirt of Li Qian's white dress gently blown by the river breeze, this is an era of fluttering white clothes.
For a whole day, the two of them went to Nanshan, went to the lake to see the reeds swinging, the green buds of the reeds and the white reeds after the winter, they waded through the small river that was not spacious, and walked through the small hills that were not too high.
Passing by a nursery, Chen Kun bent down and picked a bunch of lily of the valley, around May is the peak flowering period of the lily of the valley, a mouthful of white wind chime-like flowers, hammered on the side of the inflorescence axis, in the leaf against the backdrop of extraordinarily youthful, the number of flowers on the inflorescence axis of each lily of the valley is indefinite, generally more than a dozen, in France, people think that a bunch of exactly thirteen lily of the valley flowers can bring good luck.
The lily of the valley flowers are too small, it takes a lot to make a bunch, Chen Kun held a small bush of more than fifty, handed the flowers to Li Qian, Chen Kun clasped Li Qian's empty other hand, and shouted: "Run." β
At the same time as Li Qian sprinkled a silver bell's laughter, the two ran away quickly, so as not to be caught by the owner of the nursery.
Coming to the lake, Li Qian looked at the lily of the valley bouquet in her hand, "Asked, this is the lily of the valley?"
Chen Kun smiled and said: Yes.
"What is its flower language. β
"Returning to happiness is recognized in the West as one of the flowers that best represents happiness. β
Li Qian was silent for a while, and said softly: "The bouquet at Princess Diana's wedding, Chen Kun, is this considered a bouquet." β
Chen Kun smiled a little bitterly: "Count." β
In this year, Princess Diana and Prince Charles, are recognized as the happiest people in the world, their wedding of the century in 1981 is the focus of the whole world, they are sweet and happy.
Chen Kun is the only one in the world who knows that she will die in a car accident in August 1997 next year, and a scandal between the two will also break out.
And lily of the valley as a bouquet is not only Diana's preference, the royal aristocracy and other female stars have also used, in order to pay tribute to Princess Diana, Prince William and Kate when they got married, she also chose a small lily of the valley as a bouquet.
When Miranda Kerr got married, not only was the bouquet of lily of the valley, but the wedding dress and top hat were decorated with elements of lily of the valley.
Audrey Hepburn used a bouquet of lily of the valley in the wedding of the movie "Sweet Sister".
Natalie Portman plays a bride who runs away from her marriage for love in a Miss Dior signature fragrance campaign, and the bouquet she leaves behind when she flees the wedding is also lily of the valley.
The bouquet used in Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo's wedding is also lily of the valley.
It is also the flower mentioned in the Old Testament:
I am a Lily of the valley οΌ
a flower of saronγ
(I am the lily of the valley, the rose of Sharon.) οΌ
It has an equally beautiful name, Lily of the Valley.
Li Qian held the flowers, walked two steps to the lake, the wind gently stirred the white skirt, turned her back to Chen Kun, stroked the bangs on her forehead, and slowly said: "Chen Kun, in fact, I like you very much, listen to me, don't interrupt me." β
"My mom is in the high school, you know, there is an opportunity for exchange students in the second half of the year, it is to go to the United States, it happens to be the end of the high school entrance examination and I am in the first year of high school, my mother and my dad think this is a good opportunity. β
"Of course, I also feel that it is an opportunity, Kun, you know me, I have always wanted to go abroad. β
"Tomorrow I will transfer to the junior high school attached to the middle school to do the pre-exam sprint, Kun, forgive me for not being able to accompany you, saying that I really like you, this time is actually the happiest time for me, going to class together, after class, even if I tutor you, I am actually very happy. β
"But the dream is so heavy, but the wings are so soft, we are all so small, we are all children of ordinary families, you and I are, so this opportunity is really important to me, Kun, I want to focus all my energy on studying, can you understand me?. β
Chen Kun licked his lips and said bitterly, "I think I can understand." "The voice was dry and harsh.
Can you understand? Chen Kun asked himself, maybe he can, for Chen Kun before his rebirth, Li Qian's trip to the United States is nothing more than going to another world, yes, we are all ordinary children, and we don't have the ability to control the seven-colored clouds, Li Qian said this sentence as if it meant that the original two parallel lines, at this moment, one suddenly branched off, and it was not surprising that there might never be another intersection in his life, it was not that Li Qian was not confident in Chen Kun's relationship with herself, but the reality was like this, it was heavy, cold, Tall and mighty, destroying everything.
Can Chen Kun say that you are waiting for me? Chen Kun can't, Chen Kun can say that I have lived again, please believe me? Chen Kun can't either, no one can deprive each other of the right to choose, even if they know it's wrong.
Li Qian turned around, stretched out her hand to Chen Kun and said, "We're still friends, Kunzi, you should bless me." β
There were tears streaming on her delicate face and a bright smile, although Li Qian may be in a complicated mood at this moment, Chen Kun could see that Li Qian was still happy to go to the United States.
Chen Kun held Li Qian's outstretched hand hard, smiled bitterly, but he was also sincerely happy for Li Qian, and said: "Of course I will bless you, really, although I am a little sad, but I am really happy for you, I think we will always be friends." β
Looking at Chen Kun's bitter and sincere expression, Li Qian pounced and hugged Chen Kun tightly, hugging so deeply, holding so true, but not involving emotion.
Chen Kun felt his shoulders that were gradually wet with tears, and said silently in his heart: "No matter what the future holds, limited to today, I love you so much, goodbye." β